Roundup Rodeo BBQ opening in Spring 2023 at Hollywood Studios
The long-awaited Roundup Rodeo BBQ restaurant in Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studio will now open in the spring of 2023, Disney announced.
The restaurant was originally announced to open in 2022 with Jessie’s Trading Post, which will be full of “the coolest toys and finest souvenirs,” merchandise shop to open. Nothing more has been announced on Jessie’s Trading Post.
The Roundup Rodeo BBQ table-service restaurant was created in collaboration among Imagineers, Disney Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney World Food & Beverage to design this one-of-a-kind dining experience.
The idea is that Andy has built a rodeo restaurant for all his pals. As guests, who are honorary toys, enjoy barbecue-inspired comfort foods served family-style, with platters of house-smoked meats, a roundup of sides and some miniature sweet surprises along the way.
In this wild, western setting, you can find a steam train supported by colored pencils, a suspiciously impressive house of cards, and game boards featuring beloved characters from the “Toy Story” films. To fill the stands of his rodeo arena, Andy has decorated the cardboard box with hand-drawn audience members! The dining room also features the rodeo’s star performers: Jessie, Trixie, and Bo Peep with her leapin’ sheep Billy, Goat, and Gruff!
According to Disney, Imagineers worked closely with animators and designers at the renowned animation studio to bring characters and art from the films to life in new ways unique to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. They even designed full comic strips about Woody’s adventures, which Andy has used as part of the dining room ceiling.
